Doran, de Jongh and Kwei-Armah lead STR’s 2010 lecture line-up
Gregory Doran, Nicholas de Jongh and Kwame Kwei-Armah are all headline speakers in the Society for Theatre Research’s 2010 lecture programme.
De Jongh, who retired as chief theatre critic for the London Evening Standard last year, will give the society’s annual address in May and Doran, chief associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, is due to repeat his 2009 lecture on directing Shakespeare at the end of January.
Actor and playwright Kwei-Armah will appear alongside Michael Bhim and Dr Deirdre Osborne in a discussion entitled Changing Your Nation and Changing Your Station: the Playwright’s Relationship to Heritage, Representation and Legacy.
The events programme also includes lectures on life as a chorus boy in the early twentieth century and theatre manager Stephen Joseph’s relationship with the ‘establishment’.
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